Using item response theory to examine the White Bear Suppression Inventory

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-98

  Palm, Kathleen M ^a   Strong, David R ^a  

^a BUTLER HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor structure; Item response theory; Thought suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750900436     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.06.023     Document Type: Article

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